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Solve the clues to fill in the grid! Type in the answers to the clues on the right side of the Hypercross puzzle below. Clicking a thumbnail image will enlarge it. You can Tab through the clues while the image is enlarged. You can also click on the first space of a word in the grid to view the clue for that word. If two words begin in the first cell, click the cell again to view the downward word. Be sure to check your spelling! Click on the "Check your Answers" button when you think you’ve got them all.
59 Comments
RPardoe
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 07:11 PM |
Nice one!
And first to complete by the completion count.
Minor salt: one of the answers uses the popular spelling not the technically correct spelling.
Balzac
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 07:14 PM |
Well I guess I'm 2nd.
DrParty06
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 07:15 PM |
hmm everything but the last one.
Tahnan
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 07:18 PM |
9th, apparently. Fascinating, and well-executed.
UbiDubi
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 07:18 PM |
Blanking on the final answer.
bizarrojoe
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 07:22 PM |
I guessed at the final answer. The rest of the puzzle didn't seem to have anything to do with it.
blakeapeterso
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 07:26 PM |
Any salt on the last one?
UbiDubi
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 07:28 PM |
Well, if I didn't have a misspelling up in the main part of the puzzle, I would have gotten this a while ago.
mcsemcclain
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 07:28 PM |
this puzzle is madness! lost on last one...what is going on here?
jweldin11
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 07:29 PM |
Lost on the last one as well. Any salt?
thies
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 07:30 PM |
Not sure why the last one is down there. No connection to anything else that I can see, although maybe I'm just missing it.
must67
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 07:30 PM |
I haven't got the compass and girl. Any help?
thies
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 07:32 PM |
On the last one, the symbol could also be & instead of +. A read of the wikipedia entry got me there, although the answer doesn't logically follow from the clue for me.
randomcyn
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 07:33 PM |
I guessed on the final word too. No idea why it's the answer.
yendi
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 07:33 PM |
Easy and fun, but the theme only seems to apply to the last answer.
For those needing salt on it, Google is your friend. Same applies to the compass and girl (although those of us with daughters who went through a Sailor Moon phase won't need to search).
janiebellboo
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 07:34 PM |
Wikipedia led me to the answer on the last one. Iridium plus...
thies
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 07:34 PM |
[12] the text underneath her picture should get you what you need
gahndalph
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 07:35 PM |
very cylindrical
TommyTutone
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 07:37 PM |
got it, but no clue on the significance of the final clue. Wiki did go a long way to solving it though.
nekeel
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 07:39 PM |
Why do you have to do all the words on top to get the answer on bottom?
Legomancer
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 07:41 PM |
[13] There's a reason it's + instead of &.
Well done!
RPardoe
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 07:48 PM |
Using an ampersand (&) won't work for the intended method. The indicated symbol has a use with the completed spiral.
melantha
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 07:53 PM |
Easy to solve, but I have no idea what the last answer has to do with anything.
Archangel
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 08:05 PM |
Any salt from the people who think this is easy to solve?
feydjm
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 08:05 PM |
Any other salt out there for the final clue at the bottom? I've tried wikipedia, but I don't know what I'm looking for because nothing comes up as an exact match for the search.
escKey
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 08:07 PM |
can't figure out the last one????
mcsemcclain
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 08:07 PM |
my ass this is easy!! i'm over here googling seamice and skigloos. WTF?
Arnott
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 08:23 PM |
The + part is cool, but unfortunately doesn't really lead to an obvious answer. Neat idea, though.
feydjm
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 08:31 PM |
[28] Any help for those of us who don't understand what to do with it?
KMP
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 08:38 PM |
Wow.... that was rich
Rastus
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 08:43 PM |
[29]
You need to apply a pattern to the puzzle.
If that is not enough salt, I'll be back.
jmcintyre
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 08:43 PM |
I liked it!
stormthearmada
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 08:54 PM |
hmm
feydjm
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 08:48 PM |
[31] Thanks
BlueDevilDucky
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 08:49 PM |
[27] mcsemcclain check your answer on the compass one
feydjm
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 08:49 PM |
[33] Wikipedia is your friend. Use all of the clues and you will find what you need.
mcsemcclain
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 08:54 PM |
omg...the sailor moon got me....got it
stormthearmada
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 08:54 PM |
someone doesn't know their cardinal directions...
mcsemcclain
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 08:55 PM |
we need to go to mariner's academy you douche
mcsemcclain
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 08:57 PM |
me and stormthearmada actually put SEami. we are still laughing
BlueDevilDucky
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 09:08 PM |
[40] Sadly, I did, too. Thought that I had the bottom answer wrong for about 10 minutes.
Archangel
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 09:14 PM |
OH. MY. GOD. I had the bottom the whole time, but had three Ps instead of two in one of the clues. Methinks it's time for bed.
GrandpaDave
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 09:24 PM |
I'm getting the whole + thing, I wikied it, but I'm getting nothing.
EDIT: Well I got it now, but the answer, or something else, isn't right.
Solar_Penguin
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 09:38 PM |
on the last one wiki the clue then you may need to go to a certain "table" and add for the final answer.
phosrik
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:05 PM |
ok maybe i'm looking at it wrong but i have no clue what the leftmost, second down is. Is that a motorcycle or what?
tabacco
Posted on Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:17 PM |
Got them all (even the plus) except for the stupid anime characters. Any salt there? I've tried the old standbys of google and wikipedia, but I can't find anything that fits the space.
Nevermind, I just figured it out :(
qwertyca
Posted on Fri Oct 26, 2007 12:08 AM |
The puzzle spells the objects the cheerleader doll is holding as pompoMs where as wiki spells them as pompoNs. Just FYI.
freelancelot
Posted on Fri Oct 26, 2007 03:55 AM |
Murdocter, Darn! The "spiral" idea was exactly the next kind of puzzle I was going to create!! (from the creator of the sometimes liked and sometimes maligned "Hypermaze!" concept). I hope that if you see me creating one in that shape in the future you will not think I was copying youâ¦
freelancelot
Murdoctor
Posted on Fri Oct 26, 2007 04:21 AM |
There are actually two ways (intentionally) to figure out the final answer... but the "main" way is to use the answers you filled into the puzzle grid -- or at least part of them -- as a clue.
CaptainSemantic
Posted on Fri Oct 26, 2007 04:41 AM |
On the final answer, I just remembered the title of the puzzle and applied to what the clue told me to do. "Iridium + ..." But then again, I was a Chemistry major for a year in college, so maybe I'm just "wired" that way.
Murdoctor
Posted on Fri Oct 26, 2007 05:54 AM |
[50] Yes, that was one way to derive the answer. I was originally going to switch those two words around (and have "iridium" be the final answer), but decided to make it a little easier with that secondary way to solve it.
However, the main part of the puzzle was to use the answers from the grid (which were intentionally easy) to figure out the final answer word.
SALT: The big + sign is a big clue.
dantan98
Posted on Fri Oct 26, 2007 06:48 AM |
It's so frustrating to finish something that came so easily and then hit a brick wall with something that doesn't fit the rest of the puzzle!!! >-[
AwpH
Posted on Fri Oct 26, 2007 08:07 AM |
Neat, though I still had to look up the final answer, even knowing what you were looking for with the clue in the puzzle. :-)
sjlee
Posted on Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:47 AM |
I'm still missing how the spiral part of the puzzle helps get the final answer. The picture (iridium +) was sufficient for me to figure out the answer (using Wiki).
Rubble98
Posted on Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:54 AM |
i had everything right, and didn't realize for 15 minutes i spelled an anwer in the middle wrong,
TWhitsett
Posted on Fri Oct 26, 2007 12:34 PM |
I have to say that this puzzle was extremely clever in the way it was put together.
I give big kudos to anyone who can create a puzzle that is both easy and complex. And the subtlety of how to utilize the + is just incredible!
VERY WELL DONE!!!!
jtoast
Posted on Fri Oct 26, 2007 02:28 PM |
Well, I got the answer but I have absolutely no clue what the puzzle has to do with it. I just looked at heavy metal, thought of music and put in the first word I could think of that fit.
John
Posted on Fri Oct 26, 2007 05:36 PM |
Even with the answers, I can't seem to backsolve the intended "other way" to get the bottom one.
Bearcat89
Posted on Fri Oct 26, 2007 06:29 PM |
With the theme name and the first answer being the name of a Ritchie Blackmore group, I began thinking that this was going to be a completely different puzzle.
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